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Mary is a mixed media artist who paints, creates 3D assemblages, photograpghy, video and has produced several series of limited edition prints. Her works have been exhibited internationally and are in public and private collections. Recently, she has had her first book published: Mary Bogdan | Paintings, Assemblages, Prints. A graphic designer by profession, Mary Bogdan is co-founder and partner of Crayon Design & Communication, a Montreal-based graphic design firm, with husband artist/photographer, Sol Lang, and has won numerous international awards. |
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Mary Bogdan is a painter and assemblage artist. Her works include combine paintings, works on paper, assemblages and limited edition prints, in the best tradition of the works of Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. |
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view from cyclops
2003 |
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| view from cyclops Assemblage has been the discovery of my life. It fits me like a glove. Amazingly, I had been collecting garbage, found objects, flea market finds, etc, for decades. This is what they have been for... ART. All my special items have had an incredible effect on me.
Every one of my assemblages is One Of A Kind. I am a gleaner… I find in the scrap heaps and alleys ways very rare and interesting pieces of wood, metal, paper, etc, that have been discarded by others.
I work with obsolescence. Mostly, there is not another of its kind. Each found piece has out-lived its time and has therefore been thrown out by someone. Because I rescue them, they live again in my art. I often let the materials that I’ve very carefully chosen and collected dictate the creation, so I always incorporate chance finds into the ongoing and organic process that is my art.
*Exhibited at Galeire De Bouche A Oreille, Montreal, Oct 2004.
*Exhibited at M!WAA @ New Art Center, NYC, Jan-Feb 2006.
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awareness
2003 |
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| awareness This was one of my first large paintings that doesn’t respect boundaries. The handwriting is my own. Words of love and encouragement to myself. Intimate letters of understanding and openness to myself.
Included we see a blue bed sheet, a favorite of mine, used for many years until it began to rip and was not useable on the bed anymore. I tried many times, on different occasions, to throw it in the garbage. I could not. I kept it for quite a while afterwards and it eventually found its final home here. The fabric is so soft and luscious that it has always been very important to me. The color is divine.
I incorporated also, a pair of old summer pants I used to wear when gardening. I wore them well after they had ripped. Again, in blue.
I found the crotch area (opened zipper) very important as the central image. And I named this painting “awareness”, because it was the very last word written and it signaled its completion... or beginning.
I find the earth colors highly powerful against the sky (spiritual) blue. Great contrast and combination. Also included are road maps and my father’s old dress patterns, which I had painted on.
It hangs in my bedroom.
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Playing BattleDressUp (detail)
2005 |
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| Playing BattleDressUp The process of reparenting my inner child becomes more complex as the adult emerges and the influences of a hostile global and social environment invade the innocence of childhood, thereby exposing us...
Linking female "Dress Up" and male "Battle Dress", it's a balancing of my own feminine/masculine energies, and the confusion of our times.
Young males going into the military to become soldiers (to become "men"), not always realizing fully (or deeply) what that means. Youths going off, carrying with them their sensitive innards. Here we see it illustrated in a very graphic way, emotions and fear, childlike qualities, playfulness, feminine energies....
This piece contains: 4 West German military duffel bags from the 1960's, ripped wide open; my father's "Made in Germany" measuring tape (he was a tailor); newspaper page torn out from "The Standard", Montreal, Nov 27, 1926; letters in a bag; dictionary page, containing the words: "fundamentalism", "funeral'; dried white wildflowers; dead leaves; wire mesh; string; burlap; opened silk purse; fruit mesh bag; swatch of USA flag; pink lace; carbon paper (in my sisters handwriting) including words "bushel for bushel"; red ribbon; oil can "3-in-1"; cord; book of matches; newspaper page from "The Shawinigan Standard", Nov 14, 1945; polish letter from Warsaw, Poland written Nov 18, 1945.
*Exhibited at Sandra Goldie Gallery, Montreal, Nov 2005.
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OutdoorAssemblage3
2005 |
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| OutdoorAssemblage series My outdoor assemblages were created in my garden as temporary installations.
They were created as personal fantasy pieces that I will dismantle in time and the component parts will possibly be reassembled to make new assemblage works during another season. Their temporariness make them illusive and fleeting, but non the less powerful and stricking. They talk about life and death and my inner spirit as a rebel.
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GAP/The Holy Bible
2003 |
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| GAP/The Holy Bible I found myself obsessed by discarded GAP shopping bags, but not because I was shopping there, but because I began seeing them in garbage piles all over the place, and lots of times containing garbage, too. These bags hold a great fascination for me, great job in marketing (I guess millions of dollars spent), they are totally unmistakable.
The “fashionable” carry them on the streets as an emblem of youth and style, but when they lie all crumpled up and thrown away in the garbage they seem abandoned and sad. I love them. The blue and white is so spiritual, so clean, so simple. I paint on them feverishly as they are a brilliant vessel that holds great energy and excitement for me.
I continue to pick them up whenever I see one. I am still collecting them.
I paint on them with great passion as they are transporters holding great energy and excitement for me...
What is interesting is this idea of the personal found object rather than the simple random selection of the mundane or utilitarian. Recycling is the way to go for our western materialistic civilization! I love the idea of incorporating our environment into the work. There is beauty in everything and I put it together so that the viewer can see it. I think that’s what makes art compelling… it’s about showing something that is very human and vulnerable in all of us, and not having (too much) fear about exposing it.
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urbania
2003 |
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| urbania The significance of the work lies both in the creative process itself as well as in the final piece. It’s the cycle that involves recycling, recovery (or discovery), manipulation, and the alteration of found objects. Modifications and transformations can affect a thing over time, and this is the celebration of the “found” object in art. My works are a personal vision of self-discovery and a recognition of the continual reinvention of myself. It is the shaping of the self through the creation of art and the development of the art through self-construction. This ongoing and evolving cycle is the essence of my work.
Each painting is unique. No two can be the same because I use "found" objects that I encorporate, and many times these are one-of-a-kind items that have been either found (on the streets) or given to me.
In this painting, I have used an old cloth sack (a Bemis Seamless, extra heavy) as my canvas and starting point, with layers and layers of transparent papers, coloured tissue papers (reading mysterious, elusive, the unexpected, the unveiling, secrets and surprises), japanese parchment, an old map, graph paper, my father's pattern paper, envelope with dried leaves in it, marked "urbania".
Together they symbolize that which is fleeting... the utter fragility of life (and death). This piece was created in the middle of a forest, where I had been working all day, and so I incorporated that which was around me on the ground... dried leaves, and above me... the clouds. The overall shape also reminds me of a body with arms stretched out... or the crucified Christ figure. Created at a time just before my father's death.
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Madonna&Child/Reparenting 1.2
2005 |
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| Madonna/Child OR Reparenting my Inner Child 1.2 In this series, I incorporated my interest in old masters’ paintings (Botticelli, Raphael, Durer, etc) of the Madonna & Child, with my deep connection to and on-going process of reparenting my own “Inner Child”.
These are self-portraits. I am both the MOTHER and the CHILD. It is fascinating on many levels: the eternal connection of myself and art, and to the great masters who have left there historic mark; the religious theme of the Virgin Mary and Christ, echoing my very strict roman catholic upbringing.
My images are both playful and disarming and include my rebel inner child, who screams out to be heard, to be seen, to be recognized and appreciated... and to be loved...
Ten different images in this series of limited edition prints. This is #1.2 Botticelli. 1444/5-1510. The Virgin & Child w Singing Angels. Berlin Museum.
*Exhibited at Les Femmeuses, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Montreal, Apr 2006.
*Exhibited at HYPE GALLERY, BG Oosterdokskade 3-5, Amsterdam, Apr 2006.
*Also in the collection of Loto-Quebec.
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espace
2002 |
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| espace Combine Paintings: I paint from the gut, with intense spirituality and intuition. This painting has come about with the discovery of old, discarded paintings found on the streets (in the garbage). Sometimes I even find old paintings at flea markets. I paint furiously over them, picking up on the energy left behind.
Often, I turn these found/discarded canvases around, paint on the back sides, exposing the wood frame. These canvases live again because they have given me their inspiration. Their energy. They feed me. By working on other artist’s thrown-away paintings, I am one with all art and all artists; I am the continuation, the circle. I submerge myself in the flow of energy that is art.
YES, the zone, or groove. The best place to create from... And, YES, it’s important to reflect on one’s own work and the growth that results... and then, to see an observer make a connection on their own journey, using your work as another guide. That is a gift!
Espace, 2002, 21.75” x 15”, mixed media painting on the backside of a previously-used (by another artist) canvas.
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GAP / The Holy Bible
2003 |
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| GAP/The Holy Bible, 2003, 11.0" x 12.2", limited edition giclée print, mixed media painting on a ripped open G A P shopping bag.
I found myself obsessed by G A P shopping bags... but not because I was shopping there (never have), but because I began seeing them in garbages piles all over the place, and lots of times containing garbage.
These bags hold a great fascination for me... great job in marketing (I guess millions of $$$ spent), they are totally unmistakable.
The "fashionable" carry it on the streets as an emblem of youth and style, but when they lie all crumpled up and thrown away in the garbage they seem abandoned and sad... I love them... the blue and white is sooooo spiritual, so clean, so simple....
I paint on them feverishly as they are a brilliant vessel that holds great energy and excitement for me.
"The significance of the word GAP", well for me, I find it interesting because the gap is that opening that allows us to transcend... the place we all long for in meditation... that place where we get great insights and glimpses of genius... so it's interesting that the GAP would use this for their shopping culture... I use these bags being very aware of this, personally this speaks to me. By the way, this is not a random choice, I also love "roots" bags... precisely for that reason, because these words are walking around on the shopping bags as an advertisement about "being in the gap" or connecting with our "roots"... it is indeed a subliminal suggestion.....
I continue to pick them up whenever I see one...
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GAP 2
2003 |
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| GAP 2, 2003, 10.7" x 11.0", limited edition giclée print, mixed media painting on a ripped open G A P shopping bag. I found myself obsessed by G A P shopping bags... but not because I was shopping there (never have), but because I began seeing them in garbages piles all over the place, and lots of times containing garbage. These bags hold a great fascination for me... great job in marketing (I guess millions of $$$ spent), they are totally unmistakable. The "fashionable" carry it on the streets as an emblem of youth and style, but when they lie all crumpled up and thrown away in the garbage they seem abandoned and sad... I love them... the blue and white is sooooo spiritual, so clean, so simple.... I paint on them feverishly as they are a brilliant vessel that holds great energy and excitement for me. "The significance of the word GAP", well for me, I find it interesting because the gap is that opening that allows us to transcend... the place we all long for in meditation... that place where we get great insights and glimpses of genius... so it's interesting that the GAP would use this for their shopping culture... I use these bags being very aware of this, personally this speaks to me. By the way, this is not a random choice, I also love "roots" bags... precisely for that reason, because these words are walking around on the shopping bags as an advertisement about "being in the gap" or connecting with our "roots"... it is indeed a subliminal suggestion..... I continue to pick them up whenever I see one...
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GAP 1
2003 |
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| GAP 1, 2003, 11.0" x 14.3", limited edition giclée print, mixed media painting on a ripped open G A P shopping bag.
I found myself obsessed by G A P shopping bags... but not because I was shopping there (never have), but because I began seeing them in garbages piles all over the place, and lots of times containing garbage.
These bags hold a great fascination for me... great job in marketing (I guess millions of $$$ spent), they are totally unmistakable.
The "fashionable" carry it on the streets as an emblem of youth and style, but when they lie all crumpled up and thrown away in the garbage they seem abandoned and sad... I love them... the blue and white is sooooo spiritual, so clean, so simple....
I paint on them feverishly as they are a brilliant vessel that holds great energy and excitement for me.
"The significance of the word GAP", well for me, I find it interesting because the gap is that opening that allows us to transcend... the place we all long for in meditation... that place where we get great insights and glimpses of genius... so it's interesting that the GAP would use this for their shopping culture... I use these bags being very aware of this, personally this speaks to me. By the way, this is not a random choice, I also love "roots" bags... precisely for that reason, because these words are walking around on the shopping bags as an advertisement about "being in the gap" or connecting with our "roots"... it is indeed a subliminal suggestion.....
I continue to pick them up whenever I see one... |
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Madonna&Child.1
2005 |
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| Madonna&Child.1, 11.0" x 8.3", limited edition giclée print. Work on paper, mixed media on hand made paper. One in a series of seven. This subject and the whole series, in general, came about subconsciously when I realized that all of the individual pieces in this first series on paper, possessed a recurring theme... Madonna & Child (from master paintings). When casually asked by my husband Sol Lang which one I was... Madonna? OR Child?, I perhaps should have said Madonna (mother/woman), but instead, I realized that I in fact had identified more with the child in each of these pieces. I was the child. This was the catalyst which started me thinking about what was going on.... and I began a new series (of prints this time) that also touches this theme, but now I brought in a deeper understanding, which included myself both as mother and (inner) child. I completed a series of ten prints and later a second series of ten. Also in the works, is a video on the subject. |
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Madonna&Child.2
2005 |
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| Madonna&Child.2, 11.0" x 8.3", limited edition giclée print. Work on paper, mixed media on hand made paper. One in a series of seven. This subject and the whole series, in general, came about subconsciously when I realized that all of the individual pieces in this first series on paper, possessed a recurring theme... Madonna & Child (from master paintings). When casually asked by my husband Sol Lang which one I was... Madonna? OR Child?, I perhaps should have said Madonna (mother/woman), but instead, I realized that I in fact had identified more with the child in each of these pieces. I was the child. This was the catalyst which started me thinking about what was going on.... and I began a new series (of prints this time) that also touches this theme, but now I brought in a deeper understanding, which included myself both as mother and (inner) child. I completed a series of ten prints and later a second series of ten. Also in the works, is a video on the subject. |
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Madonna&Child.6
2005 |
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| Madonna&Child.6, 11.0" x 7.8", limited edition giclée print. Work on paper, mixed media on hand made paper. One in a series of seven. This subject and the whole series, in general, came about subconsciously when I realized that all of the individual pieces in this first series on paper, possessed a recurring theme... Madonna & Child (from master paintings). When casually asked by my husband Sol Lang which one I was... Madonna? OR Child?, I perhaps should have said Madonna (mother/woman), but instead, I realized that I in fact had identified more with the child in each of these pieces. I was the child. This was the catalyst which started me thinking about what was going on.... and I began a new series (of prints this time) that also touches this theme, but now I brought in a deeper understanding, which included myself both as mother and (inner) child. I completed a series of ten prints and later a second series of ten. Also in the works, is a video on the subject. |
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Love [ME] Tender_0115.2
2006 |
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| Love [ME] Tender 14.7" x 11.0". limited edition giclée print. This series of intimate self-portraits has been a long time coming... it was my sister who was the "pretty one"... the "thin one"... the "smart one"... I grew up in her shadow... I was her little sister... never quite matching up to her, never able to be mom's "favorite"... These are painful thoughts, years of feeling self-loathing... today I took these photos of myself with love and forgiveness, and thoughts of "I am beautiful"... chubby, but beautiful... My mother's heritage to me was her sense of herself as a "fat person"... not quite worthy of beauty and maybe this is why she admired and "loved" my sister more, for she was the "beautiful one".... Maybe I was too much a mirror to her. Feeling deep pains as I write this... but today is the day I fight back and say to my mother "It's OK to be fat"... It's beautiful if you feel beautiful inside, if you are loved deeply by a wonderful man, and if you love yourself enough to forgive yourself for being "fat".... I think these photos of myself are full of love and beauty... that's how I feel about [ME].... today.... |
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Love [ME] Tender_0121.2
2006 |
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| Love [ME] Tender 14.7" x 11.0". limited edition giclée print. This series of intimate self-portraits has been a long time coming... it was my sister who was the "pretty one"... the "thin one"... the "smart one"... I grew up in her shadow... I was her little sister... never quite matching up to her, never able to be mom's "favorite"... These are painful thoughts, years of feeling self-loathing... today I took these photos of myself with love and forgiveness, and thoughts of "I am beautiful"... chubby, but beautiful... My mother's heritage to me was her sense of herself as a "fat person"... not quite worthy of beauty and maybe this is why she admired and "loved" my sister more, for she was the "beautiful one".... Maybe I was too much a mirror to her. Feeling deep pains as I write this... but today is the day I fight back and say to my mother "It's OK to be fat"... It's beautiful if you feel beautiful inside, if you are loved deeply by a wonderful man, and if you love yourself enough to forgive yourself for being "fat".... I think these photos of myself are full of love and beauty... that's how I feel about [ME].... today.... |
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Love [ME] Tender_0127.2
2006 |
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| Love [ME] Tender 14.7" x 11.0". limited edition giclée print. This series of intimate self-portraits has been a long time coming... it was my sister who was the "pretty one"... the "thin one"... the "smart one"... I grew up in her shadow... I was her little sister... never quite matching up to her, never able to be mom's "favorite"... These are painful thoughts, years of feeling self-loathing... today I took these photos of myself with love and forgiveness, and thoughts of "I am beautiful"... chubby, but beautiful... My mother's heritage to me was her sense of herself as a "fat person"... not quite worthy of beauty and maybe this is why she admired and "loved" my sister more, for she was the "beautiful one".... Maybe I was too much a mirror to her. Feeling deep pains as I write this... but today is the day I fight back and say to my mother "It's OK to be fat"... It's beautiful if you feel beautiful inside, if you are loved deeply by a wonderful man, and if you love yourself enough to forgive yourself for being "fat".... I think these photos of myself are full of love and beauty... that's how I feel about [ME].... today.... |
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menagerie1. gone with the wind / morning prayers
2005 |
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| menagerie1. gone with the wind / morning prayers (menagerie series), limited edition giclée print: 11.0" x 7.6". 2005, mixed media on hand made Himalayan paper |
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Madonna & Child OR Re-Parenting My Inner Child 3.7
2007 |
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| Madonna & Child OR Re-Parenting My Inner Child 3.7 limited edition giclée print: 13.4" x 11.0", 2007. Series 3, total of 13. Mixed media and giclée printed on archival paper.
I was getting ready for The 9th International Collage Exhibition and Exchange, New Zealand, April 2007. BUT, something crazy happened along the way. I reread the rules, and realized I couldn't/shouldn't send any PLANT MATERIAL in/on the collages to New Zealand from Canada...
I'm OUT, I thought. I have several collages with dried leaves, parsley leaves, a hibiscus bloom, twigs, moss, dog hairs, my hairs, pubic hairs... So, I decided I couldn't break up the set of 13 as they were and so decided to just keep them... and hope for the best... that they'll be shown eventually together, somewhere. So, here they are, all 13, together.
This has been my process. I was working on these 13 in the last couple of weeks and am now posting the transitions, or should I say transformations, or should I say transmutations, or, dare I say... transcendence.
madonna & child or re-parenting my inner child, a film by mary bogdan
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espace
2002 |
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| espace Combine Paintings: I paint from the gut, with intense spirituality and intuition. This painting has come about with the discovery of old, discarded paintings found on the streets (in the garbage). Sometimes I even find old paintings at flea markets. I paint furiously over them, picking up on the energy left behind.
Often, I turn these found/discarded canvases around, paint on the back sides, exposing the wood frame. These canvases live again because they have given me their inspiration. Their energy. They feed me. By working on other artist’s thrown-away paintings, I am one with all art and all artists; I am the continuation, the circle. I submerge myself in the flow of energy that is art.
YES, the zone, or groove. The best place to create from... And, YES, it’s important to reflect on one’s own work and the growth that results... and then, to see an observer make a connection on their own journey, using your work as another guide. That is a gift!
Espace, 2002, 21.75” x 15”, mixed media painting on the backside of a previously-used (by another artist) canvas.
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literal passion
2002 |
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| literal passion, 2002, 20"w x 16"h, mixed media painting on backside of previously-used (by another artist) canvas. View large size for all the details!!!!
Combine Paintings: I paint from the gut, with intense spirituality and intuition. This painting has come about with the discovery of old, discarded paintings found on the streets (in the garbage). Sometimes I even find old paintings at flea markets. I paint furiously over them, picking up on the energy left behind.
Often, I turn these found/discarded canvases around, paint on the back sides, exposing the wood frame. These canvases live again because they have given me their inspiration. Their energy. They feed me. By working on other artist’s thrown-away paintings, I am one with all art and all artists; I am the continuation, the circle. I submerge myself in the flow of energy that is art. |
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silence III
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| silence III, 2002, 28.75"w x 21.5"h, mixed media painting on the backside of a previously-used (by another artist) canvas.
Combine Painting: I paint from the gut, with intense spirituality and intuition. This painting has come about with the discovery of old, discarded paintings found on the streets (in the garbage). Sometimes I even find old paintings at flea markets. I paint furiously over them, picking up on the energy left behind. Often, I turn these found/discarded canvases around, paint on the back sides, exposing the wood frame. These canvases live again because they have given me their inspiration. Their energy. They feed me. By working on other artist’s thrown-away paintings, I am one with all art and all artists; I am the continuation, the circle. I submerge myself in the flow of energy that is art.
The words "silence III RV 6115" were written by the anonymous artist who painted on the front side of this canvas, which I purchased cheap cheap at a flea market. |
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TideRed
2003 |
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| TideRed; 2003; 12.125"h x 11.5"w x 6.5"d, mixed media on abandoned Tide laundry detergent box.
About this series: TideYellow, TideRed and TideBlack.
I began noticing vagrant TIDE boxes all over the city (Montreal)... in the recycle bins and in garbages on Recycle Bin Day and/or Garbage Day. They stood out so vividly among the green plastic bin containers and the garbage bags thrown out on the streets of our neighborhoods. They were so compelling to me: "TAKE ME HOME", that I began stopping my car wherever I was and no matter where I was going and picking them up.
They were usually in perfect condition... empty. They are very sturdy, having to hold all our laundry detergent for generations... never changing its look very much... just an upgrading of graphics now and then over the years (first introduced in '46)
I fell in love with them... they spoke to me of wash day Mondays... motherhood, family... cleanliness (is next to godliness). Andy Warhol (with a twist)...
I held on to them for a long while, enjoying their beauty. I started to paint them.... giving them different personalities... different interiors.
Each Tide box contains a smaller box/bag inside.. way at the bottom... a precious gift.. a secret hiding place...
But... this is all a GREAT SEDUCTION.... Yes, making a "cultural icon" from something that is a destructive force, is alarming.... and so my vision of these tide boxes has evoked and touched something in all of us... beyond what was originally intended... This is art....
...And ART IS THE CONSCIENCE OF HUMANITY.
It is the responsibility of the artist to provoke... and engage. |
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TideYellow
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| TideYellow; 2003; 12.125"h x 11.5"w x 6.5"d, mixed media on abandoned Tide laundry detergent box.
About this series: TideYellow, TideRed and TideBlack.
I began noticing vagrant TIDE boxes all over the city (Montreal)... in the recycle bins and in garbages on Recycle Bin Day and/or Garbage Day. They stood out so vividly among the green plastic bin containers and the garbage bags thrown out on the streets of our neighborhoods. They were so compelling to me: "TAKE ME HOME", that I began stopping my car wherever I was and no matter where I was going and picking them up.
They were usually in perfect condition... empty. They are very sturdy, having to hold all our laundry detergent for generations... never changing its look very much... just an upgrading of graphics now and then over the years (first introduced in '46)
I fell in love with them... they spoke to me of wash day Mondays... motherhood, family... cleanliness (is next to godliness). Andy Warhol (with a twist)...
I held on to them for a long while, enjoying their beauty. I started to paint them.... giving them different personalities... different interiors.
Each Tide box contains a smaller box/bag inside.. way at the bottom... a precious gift.. a secret hiding place...
But... this is all a GREAT SEDUCTION.... Yes, making a "cultural icon" from something that is a destructive force, is alarming.... and so my vision of these tide boxes has evoked and touched something in all of us... beyond what was originally intended... This is art....
...And ART IS THE CONSCIENCE OF HUMANITY.
It is the responsibility of the artist to provoke... and engage. |
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TideBlack
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| TideBlack; 2003; 12.125"h x 11.5"w x 6.5"d, mixed media on abandoned Tide laundry detergent box.
About this series: TideYellow, TideRed and TideBlack.
I began noticing vagrant TIDE boxes all over the city (Montreal)... in the recycle bins and in garbages on Recycle Bin Day and/or Garbage Day. They stood out so vividly among the green plastic bin containers and the garbage bags thrown out on the streets of our neighborhoods. They were so compelling to me: "TAKE ME HOME", that I began stopping my car wherever I was and no matter where I was going and picking them up.
They were usually in perfect condition... empty. They are very sturdy, having to hold all our laundry detergent for generations... never changing its look very much... just an upgrading of graphics now and then over the years (first introduced in '46)
I fell in love with them... they spoke to me of wash day Mondays... motherhood, family... cleanliness (is next to godliness). Andy Warhol (with a twist)...
I held on to them for a long while, enjoying their beauty. I started to paint them.... giving them different personalities... different interiors.
Each Tide box contains a smaller box/bag inside.. way at the bottom... a precious gift.. a secret hiding place...
But... this is all a GREAT SEDUCTION.... Yes, making a "cultural icon" from something that is a destructive force, is alarming.... and so my vision of these tide boxes has evoked and touched something in all of us... beyond what was originally intended... This is art....
...And ART IS THE CONSCIENCE OF HUMANITY.
It is the responsibility of the artist to provoke... and engage. |
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| EXPOSITIONS / EXHIBITIONS 2009 Gesù, centre de créativité, Lumière sur le Gesù. Jan20-Mar28,09. Montréal, Qc. Gallery at Willesden Green, Conflict Resolution. Jan13-Feb12,09. London, UK. 2008 Diagonale, centre des arts et des fibres du Quebec, Vert. Dec6-13,08. Montréal, Qc. Galerie La Traverse, Les rencontres du Tarot 2008. Oct1-24,08. Marseille, France. Gesù, centre de créativité, Art Sacré. Sep24-Dec24,08. Montréal, Qc. Ville de Hampstead, Art & Champagne. Sep9-11,08. Montréal, Qc. 2007 Transnatura Videolab 07, Image-Body, Botanical Garden. May18-June16, 07. Coimbra, Portugal. Galerie ArtsSutton, Awakening, Juried Members’ Exhibition. March29-May6, 07. Sutton, Qc, Musée de l'Elysée, We Are All Photographers Now! Feb8-May20, 07. Lausanne, Switzerland. Scope NYC, [PAM] Cinema-Scope, Lincoln Center. Feb22-26, 07. New York City, NY, USA. Galerie ArtsSutton, Metamorphosis. Feb22-Mar25, 07. Sutton, Qc. 2006 Galerie ArtsSutton, Members Exhibition. Nov9-Dec10, 06. Sutton, Qc, Hype Berlin, Café Moskau, Karl-Marx-Allee 34. Oct28-Nov18, 06. Berlin, Germany. Pace/MacGill Gallery, Selfportraitr, curating the flickr community. New York City, NY, USA. Galerie McClure, Collective Visions, Visual Arts Center, Montréal, Qc. Les Femmeuses 2006 Exhibition, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Montréal, Qc. Galerie ArtsSutton, Juried Members Exhibition, Sutton, Qc. Hype Gallery, BG Oosterdokskade 3-5, Amsterdam, Netherlands. M!WAA @ New Art Center, New York City, NY, USA. 2005 Galerie Sandra Goldie, Montréal, Qc. Les Femmeuses 2005 Exhibition, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Montréal, Qc. 2004 Galerie De Bouche à Oreille, Le Belgo, Montréal, Qc. 2002 Salon d’automne International des Beaux-arts de Montréal, World Beat Center. Montréal, Qc. McClure Gallery, Visual Arts Center, Montréal, Qc. 2001 Saidye Bronfman Center, Montréal, Qc 1980 Gallery VAV, Concordia University, Montréal, Qc. ASSOCIATIONS Diagonale, Centre des arts et des fibres du Québec, Montréal, Qc M!WAA @ New Art Center, New York City (05-06) Galerie ArtsSutton, Sutton, Qc PRÉSENCE SUR INTERNET / INTERNET PRESENCE Mary Bogdan website Mary Bogdan blog Saatchi Gallery, UK Pace/MacGill Gallery, NYC Flickr.com ArtsSutton.com MixedMedia.us [PAM], NYC Hype Gallery ELAN-Québec JPGmag.com Art.com artdiagonale.org blurb.com YourArt.com HeuteKunst.com Gomma, UK Utata.org YouTube.com DailyMotion.com lulu.com iFilm.com COLLECTIONS Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, La Médiathèque, Montréal, Québec Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Documentation Center, Montréal, Québec Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland La Collection Loto-Québec, Montréal, Québec Ville de Hampstead, Montréal, Québec The Avmor Collection, Montréal, Québec, (commissioned works) Private Collections PUBLICATIONS Mary Bogdan | Paintings, Assemblages, Prints Mary Bogdan | Madonna & Child or Re-parenting my Inner Child / La Madone avec l'Enfant ou « Prendre soin de mon enfant intérieur » Love [ME] Tender Vidéos / Videos Madonna & Child or Re-parenting my Inner Child Love [ME] Tender Madonna & Child 3 Madonna & Child, The Whole Series FORMATION / EDUCATION Diplôme des beaux-arts (distinction), Université Concordia, 1976 Divers cours en peinture et en assemblage au Centre des arts Saidye Bronfman et au Centre des arts visuels de Montréal --- Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction, Concordia University. 1976. Various Creative Painting and Assemblages courses at the Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts and the Visual Arts Center, Montréal. PRIX REÇUS DEPUIS 1983 / PROFESSIONAL AWARDS Communication Arts Award of Excellence • Creativity Award, Art Direction, New York • CAPIC • Graphisme Québec • Grafika • Applied Arts Magazine awards • Neenah Paper, Kimberly-Clark Corp • CPBMA (Canadian Paper Box Manufacturing Ass) • PIA (Printing Industries of America) • PAC (Packaging Association of Canada • Concour Litho ARTICLES / REVIEWS MixedMedia.us, “Mary Bogdan: Brash, Personal Collage and Assemblage”, by Lars Hasselblad Torres, Mar25, 07. Le Tour, “Galerie Arts Sutton” by Catherine Audet, Spring/Printemps 2007. Le Tour, “Réflexions «facilitantes» à ArtsSutton” by Lise F. Meunier, Winter/Hiver 2006. Les Femmeuses 2006, exhibition catalog, April 2006. Vie Des Arts, nouvelles brèves: “les femmeuses, l’art au service de la collectivité”, No198 printemps 2005. Le Journal De Montréal, arts visuels: “les femmeuses arrivent...”, Paul Villeneuve, samedi 16 avril 2005. Eye on The Arts, by Paula Shulak, The Community News, New Castle County, Delaware, “In Love With The Arts And Each Other”, 2004 Les Femmeuses 2005, exhibition catalog, April 2005. The Canadian Jewish News, Arts & Travel, “Goldie pans for talent in pool of emerging artists”, by Heather Solomon, February 3, 2005. The Suburban.com, Cohen Chatter, 2005-11-09. Mirror, Art This Week, ArtsHole, “Garbage to Gallery”, Nov 17-23, 2005. Gomma Magazine, Gomma News, “Paintings & Assemblages | Mary Bogdan”, November 2005 Gallery Guide, New York City, USA, Dec 2005. Pour me joindre / Contact info website: http://marybogdan.com, blog: http://marybogdan.blogspot.com flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marybogdan email: mary@marybogdan.com tél: 514-483-4298 |
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